I am not sure which part of 'take it or leave it' you do not understand. On the contrary, I am sure that what you do not understand is what is kosher and what is not. Your reply was sadly so predictable. I care as much about your feelings on the matter, as you care about mine. 8-) Well, the problem...

Oh dear. It's time for the annual Festival Of Outrage concerning the Aro gTer. No, it's the festival of defending dharma hoax. You won the crown. Then I met actual Aro gTer people and my assumptions were challenged. (As incidentally and more importantly have been the assumptions of several teachers...

Then, please, next time ask Khenpo Sonam Tobgyal about Aro Lingma. If the whole thing was not a hoax, how come the founder has not shown the terma he is supposed to have found ? Can he read (and understand) Tibetan ? I am sure KST has no clue about the whole thing Ngakpa Chogyam invented...

Aro's lineage (not to be confounded with the Sems-sde lineage from A-ro Ye-shes 'byung-gnas, *9th c.) is fake because it is based on the supposed teachings of Aro Lingma, a woman said to have lived around the late 19th-early 20th century. However, there never was any Aro Lingma, and there was never ...

Many thanks for this Lhasa! The old tradition Menri Ponlob talks about consists in writing the names of all Bönpo Geshes on individual pieces of paper and have these hidden inside small balls of tsampa. All these balls are then put inside a vase which is shaken by an elder monk until two or three ba...

This is Lopön Trinley Nyima Rinpoche, the renown Lopon of Menri , Dolanji. I can't get the whole statement as my internet connexion is low and the video keeps on buffering, but in the part I've been able to listen to, he says that he's been asked by many people to make a statement. So he basically s...

I just received the sad news from JLA a minute ago that HH the 33rd Menri Tridzin, Lungtok Tenpai Nyima Rinpoche, passed away earlier today. He was one of the greatest Bön teacher from the (pre-exile) older generation and one of the most knowledgeable Dzogchen masters in the history of Bön. It is of...

so do they have 100000 accumulation since 13th century or that part have been introduced later? it was not introduced later, it clearly predates the Phyag-khrid itself. on a side note it is above my head how anyone can accomplish such a task in 100 days let alone 49. i am doing 1200-1300 full prost...

Following the teachings of the Phyag-khrid (mid-13th century but the contents are obviously older), Bonpos generally do their 'bum-dgu (900 000) preliminaries in 49 days for those of highest capacities and 100 days for those of lower acumen.

If possible i will ask this Lopon La If possible ? I don't think Lopon knows you... and how this mix has to be explained, He has explained that already, several times. The borrowings come from Kagyu texts that were copied by Bonpos. You have an idea of Bon which is totally far from reality. I canno...

Oh he of course knows. Lopon has read and studied so many buddhist scriptures (Nyingma Tantras, Sarma ones, Longchenpa, Mipham, and so forth), he is well-aware of the borrowings. He even discussed entire borrowings from Zhi-khro cycles made by Bonpos from Kagyu texts. So he definitely knows all this.

There are many similarities between Bön and Dorje Thekpa, but they are not similar. Of course they are similar, similarities and correspondances between both Bon and Buddhist Paths are the subject of several Bon works from masters such as dBra-ston pandita and others. For the sake of readers' under...

Does anyone have experience working with both Buddhist and Bon traditions? Yes. It's exactly the same principle. Is there any conflict in switching the OM and A based on the practice? No conflict at all. In some New Bon ( bon-gsar ) teachings, you will even find indifferently Om-A-Hum or A-Om-Hum, ...

TharpaChodron wrote:on this subject, kind of, what's everyone's general consensus on John Reynolds?

I don't think there is a general consensus about him. You'll get an answer from people who like his work, a different one from people who can read and translate tibetan, and still another from tibetologists.

Hello, I am unsure of when the bardo of dying starts. Does it start after someone has taken their last breath and would technically be pronounced dead or does it start like say if someone were in a hospice and only had a few days to live would it start around that time? Thank you. Yongdzin Rinpoche...